Accessing your files at home from your office

Assume you are at work and you would like to access your files at home in a secure way. There are many ways to accomplish this, for example by remote desktop. In this article I will unveil another approach namely via SSH (Secure SHell) and mounting your remote home-directory at your computer at work. Example… Continue reading Accessing your files at home from your office

Public WiFi-hotspots and sensitive information, a good combination?

Read e-mail safely on travel

The holiday has been started, you love to check your e-mail, Facebook or WhatsApp at your holiday location but can you trust the provided Wi-Fi-connection? The answer is: NO. Never trust these kind of Wi-Fi-networks. Maybe somebody has set up a wireless access point (AP)/WLAN-hotspot with the same name as the access point of your… Continue reading Public WiFi-hotspots and sensitive information, a good combination?

Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI DPF Limousine (B7)

This stylish black Volkswagen Passat seventh generation (B7) is equipped with a diesel particle filter and a 2-liter diesel engine. Features First registration: November 10th, 2011 Manual gear (6 gears) Front wheel drive 1.968 (cm3 diesel) 125 kw / 170pk Maximum speed: 226 km/h Options ABS (Anti-lock braking system) / ESP (Electronic Stability Program) Parking… Continue reading Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI DPF Limousine (B7)

Parallel bash scripts – waiting for completion

Assume we would like to execute several independent tasks in parallel and we would like to wait till these tasks are completed. For example we would like to copy a set of files to several (remote) hosts and get a signal when we are ready with this copying task to ALL hosts so we can… Continue reading Parallel bash scripts – waiting for completion